SOCIOL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maternal Death, Social Epidemiology, Prevalence
13 Mar 2018
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Influence of social and cultural factors on the risk of death and disease. Focus: movement from microorganisms, to personal, to social/cultural factors: the detective work: patterns, links. "web of causation" - disease patterns explained by a complex set of factors: disease agent, human host, questio(cid:374)s . Is maternal mortality rate going up or down (globally): down between 1990-2015 world wide maternal mortality dropped by 44% Life time prevalence (during any time during one"s life) Systematic health examinations: medical data bases, health focused surveys, experimental research, who: world health organization, 1948 by un, helps set world health agenda, norms and protocols, technical support, cdc. Immediate causes of death: three broad categories. Infectious and communicable diseases: microorganisms, degenerative diseases, complex causes - multiple "risk" factors. Less economically developed countries have higher rates of infectious diseases (hence their lower leb: but area also subject to chronic, ,degenerative disease.
